Fullmetal Alchemist: Alchemy & Automail
Chapter 16 - Soul Shifting Alchemist
A/N: I know how some of you feel in the reviews... For some reason I would really hate myself if I splitted Ed and Winry... That couple makes me feel excited inside XD
When I read a fanfic about Ed and Winry not being together or like another man takes Winry and Ed is like lonely and depressed, I try really hard not to cry about it... XD
Those stories are always good though... :D
R&R...
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, it's time for the Alchemy Tournament Finals!"
The crowd exploded with cheers...
"Two teams, one goal, and one winner!" The referee pointed at one team and then pointed at another, yelling names for all to hear.
"Team 1; Edward Elric, Alphonse Elric, and Mei Chang! The rising-star contenders!"
The crowd roared with cheers...
"Team 2; Alistar Tsuki, Alex Starr, and Jade Domino! The four-year defending champions!"
The crowd roared once more...
(Their names? I don't know?! I not good at names... xD)
"The rules goes as followed; 1. No cheating, 2. Only K.O's are allowed in this event, 3. Killing is a automatic disqualification, and 4. All weapons and moves have to be done with alchemy."
The referee picked two names out from seperate hats, "The first match is, Alphonse Elric vs Alex Starr!"
The crowd cheering with excitement as Al and Alex made their way onto the battleground. Al had noticed that Julia had finally made it and stood at the front row of the crowd. She smiled and he smiled right back. Ed had catched this and stared up to see Julia. His eyes widened and he tapped Winry and pointed at her. Her eyes widened as well, "Ed, that's her!?"
He nodded, "I know, but she seems to like Al as much as he likes her!" Ed and Winry weren't the only ones who noticed her as Mei seemed to as well. Julia turned to see Mei glaring at her a little and glared back. She sat down and ignored Mei and she did the same.
Winry sighed, "See knows, Ed!" He chuckled, "And I thought I had girlfriend troubles!"
They put all that away and focused on the match. Right away, both competetors went into their stances, barely touching their chalks. After a week of training, Al would finally show his moves to the entire world. Most importantly his trump card, which he had learned from the three days Ed was asleep.
"If both sides are ready, then BEGIN!"
"Let's do this!" Both drew a transmutation circle and out popped a spear. They sparred with their weapons as neither side would be giving a inch in this battle. Alex tried to go for a low sweep, but Al jumped and swinged the spear which Alex intercepted with his own spear. They clashed with one another over and over again. Intercepting and dodging spears. Suddenly, Alex sped up his moves and his relfexes and attacks became faster. In a matter of seconds, Alex was actually connecting the spear with Al's body. He was cut in a few places like his arms and chest. He was pushing Al into a corner and when Al was laid back against the wall, Alex went for the kill. Al who barely dodged the attack had gotten out, but was still hit a little on the side of his face.
He groaned, "What to do? What to do?" He had to think of something, but it was hard because Alex wouldn't stop his attacks. Than he got it...
He remembered that Ed had used his blood to create a giant transmutation circle before in the first round of the tournament. He knew that his scars weren't big enough to copy Ed's technique, but maybe he can use something else. He looked to his side of the field and noticed the circle he had drawn was still there. He was at it and dropped his chalk onto the circle and slapped his hands onto the ground, creating a even more bigger piece of chalk. Alex charged at him once more, but Al dodged and ran away.
He turned to Ed and he smiled at him, putting a thumbs up. Al smiled back and nodded, "Thanks brother! This is because of you!"
What seemed to be a battle, turned into a game of tag as Al ran from Alex, holding the chalk, pressing it on the floor. He stopped giving chase when he realized what Al was doing.
"You bastard!"
Al stopped as well, he figured that Alex must had known about his plan already, "And your the fool! Now-"
Alex interupted, "I am not going to fall for you techniques, Alphonse"
Al's eyes widened, "What are you talking about? How could you know about all my techniques?"
"We have been studying your team's matches. We know the moves you used and we trained in ways that we can counter them. From when the Alchemy Tournament started up to the semi-finals."
"Well, so it seems that techinque is out of the question, but I still got that!" Al smiled, "Tell me..."
Al slapped his hands onto the ground, which caused a explosion that left boulders scattered on his side of the battlefield.
"Did you expect me to do this.."
Al took a second breather and looked back at his team and at Julia, "Brother, Winry, Mei, Julia, and everyone else out there... Prepare yourselfs for my trump card!"
Al slapped his hands once more onto the ground which caused the giant transmutation circle to create more smaller circles around Al's side of the field. Circles that were under the boulders.
The boulders transformed into large amounts of armored bodies. About ten to be specifc. They were all different shapes and sizes, but what stood out was the armored body that seemed to be connected to the others by many lengths of strings and threads. This armor also had a trasmutation circle on it's back. Al stood behind it and took a deep breath.
He clapped and slapped his hands on the armor and yelled, "Soul Shift!"
A bland, blinding light came after the yell as everyone in the stadium covered their eyes to avoid getting blinded. When it subsided, everyone became silent at the sight that Al was nowhere to be seen. Alex scanned the room, looking for him, but he was nowhere. Only the ten bodies of armor stood there...
Suddenly, nine started charging towards Alex throwing punches and kicks, each when it connected, caused serious damage as Alex was to shooked to see the first coming and now all nine were ganging up on him. The one controlling them was the main armor that seemed like the puppet master.
"Surprised? You should be..."
"Are you hiding inside that armor? Well, let's find out!" Alex transmuted a sword and charged Al. He pierced the sword into the armor countless of times over and over.
"It's over, Alphonse! I have pierced every part of that armor and if you're in there, you are done for.."
"You don't get it do you! I never hid inside the armor, but I did..." The armor started moving it's fingers and just like that all armored bodies were on the attack once more. Alex defended himself using his sword, but to no avail as there was to many. He was surrounded by all nine bodies and they all attacked at once.
"Armored Barrage!"
Punches and kicks flew as Alex was losing consiousness. He couldn't defend himself no longer. One armor grabbed him and body slammed him onto the floor and delivered a uppercut. Al clapped his hands, which triggered transmutation circles on all nine of the armors.
"Armored Combinement!"
They all combined to form a massive, armored body. The body grabbed Alex and slammed him onto the floor and walls over and over. The armor grabbed Alex and Al moved his finger and suddenly the armor was in the air clutching a dased and confused Alex. Al threw his hands up and then pulled then down as the armor spinned and dropped Alex harshly onto the ground. Everyone in that arena gasped and there was a period of silence because no one knew what happened. The main talk around the crowd was this "Soul Shift" Al had used and were was he.
Alex groaned as he tried to get up, but to no avail, "I-I c-can't m-move..."
He then looked at the armor, "This soul shift technique? Did you transfer you soul into the armor?"
A blinding light came from the armor and then Al appeared from the light. "That's what soul shift means! I transfered my soul into the armor that controlled the others!"
Alex chuckled, "I-I didn't know you had this t-technique..."
Al closed his eyes and remembered the human transmutation, his training, and his and Mei's break up. "Anything can happen in seven days! Bad or good!"
The referee pointed at Al and raised his hand...
"Your winner, Alphonse Elric!"
The crowd screamed and cheered for the stunt Al just pulled. No one has ever scene something like that before. They chanted his name and Al smiled and raised his arms up and walked back to his team. There were alot who were shooked. Some would include; Ed, Winry, Julia, Roy, Riza, and King Bradley...
"Nice job, Al!" Ed slapped his back and he nodded, "Uh-huh" Winry congratulated him as well and so did Mei, but something seemed off. She crossed her arms, "Al, don't you have something to tell me! Maybe about the oranged haired girl..."
His eyes narrowed, "You said move on, so I did!"
"But, I didn't think you were going to get someone else on the same day! I thought-"
"Hello, Al.." They turned and noticed Julia, who stood next to Al and Mei. "Hi, Julia, I didn't see you there!" Mei and Julia exchanged glares and Al gulped.
Were the Furher was stationed at, King Bradley smiled and started to chuckle, himself being stunned by Al's performance, "Colonel Mustang and Lieutenant Hawkeye, it seems I got a perfect code name for our new state achemist here!"
They too were stunned as they turned at him and stared with puzzling looks at each other and then back at him, "What is it?"
"The Soul Shifting Alchemist..."
A/N: There you have it... The debut of Alphonse Elric, the "Soul Shifting Alchemist"
Took me a good few hours trying to find a state alchemist name for him. I decided to use the next name to come to mind and that so happened to be it...
At first I thought that "Combinement" wasn't a real word until the internet proved me wrong!
That puppet master armor is a useful technique, isn't it...
R&R...